UK Times Goes Tentatively Paid From Friday At £1-A-Month
We’ve covered every step in Times Newspapers’ conversion to paid websites – the initial plan, the confirmation, the blocking of stories from… Read more »
UK Times’ Traffic Has Dropped, But Nobody’s Gaining
The Times’ and Sunday Times’ share of UK newspaper web visits nearly halved from 4.37 percent to 2.67 percent in the month since it introduc… Read more »
Times UK Will Give iPad Income To Apple, Will Forgo One Month
When The Times debuted its £9.99-a-month iPad edition in May, it launched without any built-in way for readers to pay again for a second mo… Read more »
Can Rupert Murdoch Remain King Of Content?
By Charles Arthur: Content is king, as we so often hear. The problem is, the internet is a republic; which means that the most exalted conte… Read more »
PCUK/Harris Poll: Quarter Of Times Readers Likely To Pay Online
There are plenty of outside guesstimates at how successful The Times and Sunday Times new websites may be when they start charging this mont… Read more »
First Look & Gallery: The Sun Launches £4.99-A-Month iPad Edition
News Corp.’s UK daily tabloid has followed The Times to Apple’s tablet, with an app edition that, at £4.99 a month, is half as much as its… Read more »
Peeking Over The Times’ Real-Life Members’ Wall
A visit to the Cheltenham Science Festival this weekend was instructive in how newspapers aim to leverage reader loyalty, and how The Times… Read more »
Wolff On Times: Liddle, AA Gill, Lawson And I Are Fundamentally Useless
Rupert’s chief naysayer Michael Wolff, on his Newser site, rolls out a curious kind of self-loathing logic, and seems to insult three “frien… Read more »
News International Poaches Telegraph CIO Cheesbrough
Telegraph Media Group chief information officer Paul Cheesbrough will leave for the same job at News International this autumn, taking contr… Read more »
VMtv Sale: Virgin Gets Sky VOD, Interactive Sports, Online Carriage
Let bygones be bygones…
After several years of animosity, BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) is buying the wholly-owned channels from VMtv, Virgin Media’s… Read more »
@ D8: Murdoch: ‘What’s An iPod Without Music?’
photo: Asa Mathat / All Things D
It may not qualify as irony but it is a lovely coincidence: the same week that The Times and The Sunday Times go behind a paywall, News Corp… Read more »
iPad News Figs: UK’s Times Sold 5,000, FT Shifted 130,000, WSJ 10,000 Subs
The Times’ iPad edition, which went on sale along with the tablet’s UK debut Friday morning, sold 5,000 copies in three days, News Corp.’s C… Read more »
First Casualty Of The Times Paywall: Legal Blogger Walks Away
By Roy Greenslade: Barrister and writer Tim Kevan has withdrawn his popular Baby Barista blog from The Times’s website in reaction to its pa… Read more »
On Rupert’s iPad: Times, Sky TV Show Different Charging Approaches
The Times joined the Financial Times as the only national UK newspaper with a news app for iPad’s international launch Friday morning.
Yes,… Read more »
Mobile Content Bits: Times Apps, 3UK For iPad, Orange ID, Publishers Weekly
– Timeses’ apps: As the papers’ new pay-for sites launched, so, too, did iPhone apps, with no fanfare, ME spotted, though there’s confusion… Read more »
Video & Pictures: Timeses Show Off Their New Sites
News International has launched two sites splitting Times Online in to TheTimes.co.uk and TheSundayTimes.co.uk, each of which will stop sear… Read more »
The Timeses Go Back-To-Basics With Print-Centric New Multimedia Sites
Rupert Murdoch’s Times Newspapers has gone ahead with the launch of separate TheTimes.co.uk and TheSundayTimes.co.uk websites as planned.
T… Read more »
Audio Interview: Times’ Executive Editors On Paid Web Relaunch
I tackled Times executive editor Danny Finkelstein (pictured) and Sunday Times executive editor Tristan Davies on how their new, separate we… Read more »
UK Times’ Paid Sites Will Turn Search Engines Away From Stories
The Times and Sunday Times’ upcoming paid sites will not allow their articles to appear in search engines like Google (NSDQ: GOOG). That was… Read more »
Stevie Spring: Murdoch Paywalls Break ‘Basic Rules Of Marketing’
By Mark Sweney: Stevie Spring, the chief executive of the magazine publisher Future, believes that Rupert Murdoch’s paywall will fail becaus… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: Absolute HTML5, Sky On Fetch, ITV.com Regs
photo: Abi Skipp
– Absolute Radio: The broadcaster says it’s overhauled its entire website to be HTML5-compatible, so all the video and other components wor… Read more »
James Murdoch: Surprised By Schmidt, Search Sites Should Give Us Answers
His father took a seat – next to News International CEO Rebekah Brooks and her new iPad – to hear News Corp (NYSE: NWS) EMEA CEO James Murdo… Read more »
James Murdoch: Rivals Will Follow Times Down Paid Route
A few weeks before the UK’s Times and Sunday Times become News Corp.’s first big consumer titles to go paid online, News Corp (NYSE: NWS) EM… Read more »
James Murdoch Lecture: Celebrating Copyright’s 300th Birthday
News Corp.’s Europe, Middle East and Asia CEO James Murdoch on Thursday gave a speech to inaugurate University College London’s new Centre f… Read more »
UK Times’ Paid Take-Up: ‘In The Land Of Two To Five Percent’?
The bets so far on how Rupert Murdoch’s Times Online in the UK will fare when it starts charging…
– Times editor James Harding reckons o… Read more »
Times Mulling More Paid Off-Shoots? ‘This Is Just A Starting Point’
With just weeks to go before The Times and Sunday Times go behind “paywalls”, know this – many aspects are not yet in place and the strategy… Read more »
UK’s Sunday Times Preparing To Lose 90 Percent Of Traffic Behind Paywall?
Did The Sunday Times’ editor, in the UK, just admit his website’s about to lose nine tenths of its readers once charges are introduced?
Fr… Read more »
First Look: How The UK Times’ New Paid Website Will Look
London-based The Times’ Times Online is set to divide in two, perhaps next week, before going behind the first of Rupert Murdoch’s big consu… Read more »
Murdoch-Owned Sun Online Blocks Meltwater Media Monitor
The Sun’s website has fallen in behind its News International stablemate Times Online by barring the PR media monitoring service Meltwater f… Read more »
Times Cuts Back Before The Wall, As Guardian Tries Law Site
With just a few weeks before they launch new sites behind paywalls in June, News Corp.’s (NYSE: NWS) Times and Sunday Times are each cutting… Read more »
The Cost Of Front Page Regime Change – YouTube: £50k?, The Sun: Priceless
There’s publicity money can’t buy, and then there’s influence that certainly does have a price…
In two last-minute attempts to influence… Read more »
News Corp’s Big Subscription Plan Coming Next Month – But What Is It?
photo: Sky News
News Corp (NYSE: NWS) is planning to unveil an “innovative subscription model” in the next month – on a curiously similar timescale to the l… Read more »
News Corp Sees Strong UK Ad Gains, But Persists With Paid
As News Corp (NYSE: NWS) prepares to tip its online business model from advertising toward reader payments, its financials are trending the… Read more »
Before The Paywall, Murdoch Stops Disclosing UK News Site Traffic
With nearly a month to go before News International raises its first paywall in June, both Times Online and Sun Online have stopped publishi… Read more »
SundayTimes.co.uk’s Paying Readers Can Set Sky TV Recordings
The Times’ forthcoming new pay-for websites may not be bundling the charges with Sky TV bills, as some had speculated – but they are integra… Read more »
NOTW.co.uk Picks Editor To Go Behind Paywall
By Steve Busfield: The former executive editor of the paper’s Fabulous magazine will be responsible for taking the website behind a paywall… Read more »
Murdoch’s Plan For Paywall Success: Readers Will Pay ‘When They’ve Got Nowhere Else To Go’
This Sunday Google (NSDQ: GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt will address the American Society of News Editors at their conference in Washington D.C. –… Read more »
Video: Times Pay Strategy Debate On SkyNews.com
One News Corp (NYSE: NWS) outlet debating another, with a bunch of talking heads in between. One of them was me, discussing The Times’ onlin… Read more »
Times Expects To ‘Lose Plenty Of Users’, Gain Loyalty
photo: Times Online
The Times’ upcoming web charges are targeted at its most committed followers – the paper acknowledges the introduction will leave it with si… Read more »
News Corp’s UK Titles To Pull Out Of Nexis
By Mercedes Bunz: News International is to pull its UK titles’ content – including the Times and the Sunday Times, the Sun and News of the W… Read more »
